Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public PhilosophyThe defect, Sandel maintains, lies in the impoverished vision of citizenship and community shared by Democrats and Republicans alike. American politics has lost its civic voice, leaving both liberals and conservatives unable to inspire the sense of community and civic engagement that self-government requires. |
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... civic or formative aspect of our politics has largely given way to the liberalism that conceives persons as free and independent selves , unencumbered by moral or civic ties they have not chosen . This shift sheds light on our present ...
... civic engagement requires ? If the pub- lic philosophy of our day leaves little room for civic considerations , it may help to recall how earlier generations of Americans debated such ques- tions , before the procedural republic took ...
... civic obligations beyond consent , then abstract worries about community and self - government , toleration and moral judgment , would seem at best beside the point . Either those objections are mistaken , or liberal politics is ...
... civic virtues that sustain it . Repub- lican freedom requires a certain form of public life , which depends in turn on the cultivation of civic virtue . Some versions of republicanism construe the dependence of liberty on self ...
... civic virtue gives the state a stake in the character of its citizens that may open the way to coercion and oppression . From the republican standpoint , on the other hand , to view citizens first and foremost as objects of treatment ...
Contents
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Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech | 55 |
Privacy Rights and Family Law | 91 |
Economics and Virtue in the Early Republic | 123 |
Free Labor versus Wage Labor | 168 |
Community SelfGovernment and Progressive Reform | 201 |
Liberalism and the Keynesian Revolution | 250 |
The Triumph and Travail of the Procedural Republic | 274 |
Other editions - View all
Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel Limited preview - 1998 |
Liberalism and Its Critics: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel No preview available - 1998 |
Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy Michael J. Sandel No preview available - 1996 |